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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Shooting the Breeze

Today's picture is from the front porch of the Nethers, Virginia Post Office. The picture was taken in 1935. It shows some of the locals sitting around and shooting the breeze. The interesting thing to me is that today, people have created such busy lives there is little time to just sit with friends and visit. Perhaps visiting has become a lost art.

I love the generational mix here--the elder with the white mustache in the middle, the two middle-aged men on the ends, and the young man. When I lived in FL in the mid 1990s, you could see similar scenes at poor rural crossroads, where post office-gas stations with sloping porches and unpainted buildings indicated to the busy passerby that these folks also didn't have jobs they had to be at. I wonder how much life has changed around Nethers, Va? Is it a mining area now? Your cache of pictures from there is wonderful.

About Me

I grew up in West Texas, and could not wait to get away. I got away, and went to the University of Texas, and then on to Stanford. I saw the world, and decided what I really wanted was to be in West Texas. So here I am, right back where I started. I had it all, and found it was not that great.

I have been an avid collector of old photographs and documents for over 30
years. The photographs on this site are derived from material I have collected
over the years. Some came from old family albums, some from material I bought at
flea markets over the years, and some from government archives of public domain
images, including the US Library of Congress, and the National Archives. We
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